Khan speaks
Salman Khan Speaks at GEL (Good Experience Live) Conference
This is good. But you really have to visit his website to appreciate the scale of what he's up to.
This guy is in the process of changing skills education forever, and everywhere. The question is how far the model can be pushed, into what sorts of subject matter vs. where its limits lie. Another issue will be whether the reasons for his success will be correctly analyzed so they can be routinely incorporated vs. the production of haphazard replicas that don't work because they adopt the surface technology but lack the crucial pedagogical aspects. Anything can be done badly, and that's nowhere more true than in education.
Toward the end he gives some hints about why his stuff works so well, and I think what he says is the key to all types of teaching. Namely, extremely careful sequencing that does not skip any steps. In my experience, people who do not think that way themselves are, without exception, bad teachers; and I've seen plenty of them. If you can't think in an orderly, sequenced way, then you simply are too disorganized to be a teacher and should not be allowed within 50 feet of a classroom, lecture hall, or student.
(btw, his series on the French Revolution is very good.)
Byron
This is good. But you really have to visit his website to appreciate the scale of what he's up to.
This guy is in the process of changing skills education forever, and everywhere. The question is how far the model can be pushed, into what sorts of subject matter vs. where its limits lie. Another issue will be whether the reasons for his success will be correctly analyzed so they can be routinely incorporated vs. the production of haphazard replicas that don't work because they adopt the surface technology but lack the crucial pedagogical aspects. Anything can be done badly, and that's nowhere more true than in education.
Toward the end he gives some hints about why his stuff works so well, and I think what he says is the key to all types of teaching. Namely, extremely careful sequencing that does not skip any steps. In my experience, people who do not think that way themselves are, without exception, bad teachers; and I've seen plenty of them. If you can't think in an orderly, sequenced way, then you simply are too disorganized to be a teacher and should not be allowed within 50 feet of a classroom, lecture hall, or student.
(btw, his series on the French Revolution is very good.)
Byron
posted by Byron | Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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